Trivia / Banana Fish

• In Memoriam: The last episode of the anime is dedicated to Dino "Papa" Golzine's Japanese voice actor, Unshō Ishizuka, who passed away on August 2018 while the show was still ongoing.
• Milestone Celebration: The release of the anime in 2018 commemorates the 40th anniversary of Yoshida's debut as a manga artist.
• Tourist Bump: The series takes place in New York City, and after the anime adaptation aired in 2018, tourism company Kinki Nippon Tourist Kanto offered a New York City tour specifically for fans that features locations around the city that were shown in the series itself; they even include a guided audio tour narrated in-character by Ash and Eiji's voice actors Yūma Uchida and Kenji Nojima. The main branch of the New York Public Library, where several scenes take place, is a particularly popular tourist attraction for fans, to the point that the library's gift shop revenue hugely increased during the 2019 fiscal year.
• What Could Have Been: According to an interview with the manga's creator, Akimi Yoshida, and Fujimoto, Eiji Okumura was originally intended to be made a woman, but she says the plot would have been too predictable as it would just have ended in a normal romance, stating that "when you write about two girls or two boys, there is a bigger range of emotions to explore."

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